[split] About knowing the history of Voynich research

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JKP

Doesn't bombast start with Wilfrid himself - filling in holes like a snake-oil salesman? And yet not knowing much of what the VMs actually contains.

LOL! Yes, that might be true. He was a businessman first and foremost.

Hyping the VMS was the way to get the best price. But you know, despite all this, I think he had a soft spot for the VMS. He spent more resources than were needed to give it some authenticity as a medieval item. Most of his research was to confirm age and provenance, the job of a bookseller, not to solve the VMS. But there may have been a part of him that really wanted to know what it contained.